The only person ever charged in connection with the murder of Tupac Shakur is asking to be released from jail while he awaits trial, according to a new court filing.
In a 33-page motion filed last week, lawyers for Duane "Keefe D" Davis argue the evidence used to charge the one-time gang member is little more than an "astounding amount of hearsay and speculative testimony" presented to the grand jury that indicted Davis in late September.
Shakur was killed in a Las Vegas drive-by shooting on Sept. 7, 1996 -- a crime that had become one of the most infamous unsolved murders in modern American history.
Davis' own words were crucial in the case against him. In his memoir and in interviews over the years, Davis has admitted to playing a key part in the killing, and what authorities have described as his "shot caller" role in orchestrating Tupac's death.
His lawyers now say prosecutors "did not introduce any independent evidence" connecting Davis to the crime, but instead used testimony from witnesses "with questionable credibility" and "relied on excerpts" from Davis' book, which they say could have been penned by his co-author.
Interviews Davis himself gave detailing his role in the shooting were "never verified" for their "truthfulness," his lawyers said, adding that Davis' media admissions were "done for entertainment purposes" and for financial gain.
"It cannot be said that the proof is evident and the presumption great that Duane is guilty of first-degree murder for the death of Shakur," his lawyers wrote. They added that, though Shakur's death in September 1996 is an "uncontested" fact, Davis' "involvement in the shooting and the motivation for the shooting is less clear."
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